E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial, tufted grass from fibrous roots, the tufts scattered; stems 12-75 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths smooth; blades 10-30 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat; ligules 2-4.5 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence egg-shaped, usually very loose and open, 8-35 cm long, at least twice as long as wide, the branches spreading, the lower branches 2-10 cm long, ascending, branching above the middle; spikelets sparse; glumes 2.2-3.6 mm long; lemmas 1.5-2.5 mm long, awnless, the callus hairs sparse, to 0.2 mm long; paleas absent or if present, as thin membranes less than 1/4 as long at the lemmas, to 0.2 mm long; anthers 0.5-1.2 mm long.